Notable Inventions of the 1840s

Posted in Science

Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first working version of the invention is used here.

1840: Screw-propelled frigate, USS Princeton: John Ericsson

1840: artificial fertilizer: Justus von Liebig

1842: Anaesthesia: Crawford Long

1843: Typewriter: Charles Thurber

1843: Fax machine: Alexander Bain

1843: Ice cream maker: Nancy Johnson

1845: Portland cement: William Aspdin

1845: Double tube tire: Robert Thomson (inventor)

1846: Sewing machine: Elias Howe

1846: Rotary printing press: Richard M. Hoe

1849: Safety pin: Walter Hunt

1849: Francis turbine: James B. Francis

1849: Telephone: Antonio Meucci  

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